Reading Seminar 2 - Adam Nyberg

This week’s reading had a lot to do with how to take your design from a concept to prototype with much focus on fine tuning during the process. Much of what is discussed in the chapters is something our group has worked on, or at least touched, but there is also a wide variety of techniques I feel we should use as we continue our work. When working on ideation, or how to concepts are to be executed, we should definitely look into affordances, how intuitive the design feels before using it, and what feedback should be given and when.

There are some things I wish we would have done better before we created a final design but I hope at least that we might be able to still make use of them. One of these is the use of metaphors which I feel could really give our design a unique touch. Another technique I would like to get started on is a moodboard. By using a moodboard we can collectively define how we want our design to “feel”, another aspect that can set it aside from other groups’ designs.

In the near future I feel we should start applying techniques from the chapter on prototyping. We have started on a prototype already, but we have just been creating it “on the fly” and using our own experiences. At our last presentation we presented a sort of low-fidelity prototype so I don’t think a high-fidelity prototype is far off.

Question for the seminar: Is Hick’s law something we should take into account for our design?